Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add qemu-devel as list for util

[Alex Bennée]

Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 22.10.2014 um 15:03 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
>> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > util is used all over the place, there's
>> > no one specifically that needs to be Cc'd
>> > on patches touching it.
<snip>
>> 
>> I'm not sure we want this.  If we dfo, then it needs to be L: instead of
>> M:.
>
> I think it's better to leave unmaintained areas out of MAINTAINERS so
> that their status is clear. If we want to get a real improvement here,
> we need to assign a (real) maintainer. The mailing list already gets the
> patches anyway, but as it happens it doesn't apply them.

I think the main point is MAINTAINERS should really indicate a tree that
patches would get applied to. There is no one gathering up random
patches to the mailing list. The trivial patches don't really catch all
the stuff that gets to the list.

-- 
Alex Bennée